November 27, 2018

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I remember in middle school geography we were taught climate zones - torrid, tropical, temperate and Arctic with latitude range for each.By climate change are scientists saying these zones now are changing latitudes? Will disappear?

We are fast approaching November, 2020. That will also be the 400th anniversary of the landing at Cape Cod of the Mayflower carrying 100 Pilgrim colonists of New Plymouth. Half of them died of a disease they faced while suffering from famine and exposure for the winter. But they kept their faith and made it a successs that spring and summer until the First Thanksgiving that fall. And yes, they ate Turkey, lobster, duck, cod and other fish along with Indian corn taught them by Squanto.

Later, Cotton Mather attributed their successes to William Bradford whom he called their Moses, and whose very well done written account in 1648 is considered the first great American literature written. The British Army captured the original manuscript circa 1777 in Boston, but we got it back from England after an 1880 lawsuit.

IIR the Professor is descended from Cotton Mather. The Mather community arrived in 17 ships in 1630 and founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston Harbor. They were Puritans rather than Separatists, but they greatly respected the Pilgrims at Plymouth as the spiritual founders of New England.

I just received my car insurance renewal bill along with a note apologizing for the steep rate increase, but the cost of repairing these complex new cars and medical treatments have really risen in recent years.

It pays to shop for new insurers for both auto and homeowners insurance. Rate creep just seems part of the business strategy. I find almost invariably that I need to change companies every 3 - 4 years and find better rates by sometimes 50%. Then the creep starts again, with the new company. Easy to shop nowadays on line and takes no more than an hour or so.

I know somebody who was on the flight from West Palm to Boston last night that was delayed for 7 hours because some kids heading to Boston were upset at being bumped and made some comments on Snapchat about “blowing up the plane.” They brought in a SWAT team, bomb sniffing dogs onto the plane, offloaded all of the luggage to check it, on and on so the passengers didn’t get in until about 6 a.m.

The geniuses were wearing gear that was a certain shade of Crimson with a white ‘H’ on it. Fucking geniuses, well connected no doubt, since their names seem to have been kept out of the papers.

"Would it not be more informational if data can be used to generate *average* temperature for 1degree` latitude bands instead of global *average*?"

I think this would confuse more than it clarified, because so many factors affect climate besides latitude. You'd be averaging the Mediterranean coast of Italy and France with southern Vermont. Mount Everest and Tampa, Florida lie darned close to the same latitude.

“In a speech addressing the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron stuck to his green agenda, promising to close 50 per cent of nuclear plants and make France carbon-free by 2050.”

That’s the sound a 1st world nation makes as it charges to the bottom.

The best part of the democrat agenda is their non-stop desire to destroy our health care system. Single payer - Universal health care - medicare for all. Whatever they call it, it will make us long for Obamacare's failures and lies.

The Dems are going to repeal the tax cut, impeach Trump in the House and raise utility bill prices by raising taxes on gas and coal. Generally go to Venezuela by way of California. It won't do anything for the nation but then they hate America first when they get up in the morning so they won't mind. I sincerely hope the House Republicans are ready to fight, not to play we're all friends together in DC.

The creator of Sponge Bob Squarepants has died. I would sometimes hit on Sponge Bob while surfing. If you watched for more than a minute or two, you were hooked. The jokes were funny and utterly devoid of malice. He must have been a good man. I'm genuinely sorry to hear of his death and at a relatively young age......I wonder if Spongebob will live on or if Spongebob was strictly the rssult of one man's creative vision.

Remind which Senator was an avowed Klan Member? Byrd? I seem to recall he was a democrat, the same pro-slavery party of Civil Wars days, and predominant opposors of Civil Rights legislation in the post-WW2 era. Makes you wonder if calling conservatives racist isn't just another case of libs accusing others of their own guilts.

Moore dated girls above the legal age. All the girls were conscious. The one time he was with a girl below the age, he cut the date short following discovery. There was no rape, rape-rape, or superior exploitation. Has any new evidence come to light about an alternative history?

Democrats also cast 9 million more votes than Republicans in these midterms.

All bunched up in their little blue districts.

Thank you, Framers!

No thanks to Baker V Carr or Reynolds V Sims. If the Framers had had any idea of the demographic change from a rural population to an urban one, they would have created some way of limiting the power of cities.

"Democrats also cast 9 million more votes than Republicans in these midterms..."

And how many of those were legal registered citizen voters voting legally? How many of them were still breathing? How many illegal voters? How many of those votes were cast by Dem party workers after they found out how many votes they needed to manufacture?

" n.n said...Moore dated girls above the legal age. All the girls were conscious. The one time he was with a girl below the age, he cut the date short following discovery. There was no rape, rape-rape, or superior exploitation. Has any new evidence come to light about an alternative history?"

Probably not, since he lost the election so there was no further need to pursue any more dirt (real or contrived).